The Dark Knight Rises (movie)

Like many of my friends and relatives, I attended a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises." It's a film that I, like many others across the world, had been looking forward to since the second installment of the trilogy was released four years ago. The excitement I felt afterward quickly turned to horror as I learned about the mass killings in Aurora, Colo. The story is chilling, according to police. James Eagen Holmes allegedly breaks through the exit of a movie theater's late-night showing of Christopher Nolan's new Batman film, throwing tear gas on the floor and shooting into a crowd of moviegoers. Holmes dyed his hair red and called himself "The...

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